Intensive Speech Motor Chaining Treatment for Residual Speech Sound Disorders

Part of paid clinical trials in Syracuse, New York.

Sponsor
Syracuse University
Study ID
NCT05929859
Phase
PHASE1/PHASE2
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Speech Sound Disorder

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
9 Years - 17 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • Speech Motor Chaining — BEHAVIORAL
    Sessions begin with Pre-practice to elicit target sounds, with verbal cueing and shaping strategies. During Structured Practice, items are practice in blocks of 6 consecutive trials (with systematic increases in difficulty), and our web-based software will manipulate the principles of motor learning, including the stimulus prompt, the participant's production, analysis of the clinician's rating, feedback prompts for the clinician, and the variability present in the practice trial. Randomized Practice will also be guided by the software and includes all linguistic levels that were produced correctly during Structured Practice, with items presented in random order.

Study Details

The goal of this randomized-controlled trial is to compare distributed treatment schedules and intensive treatment schedules in 84 school-age children with residual speech sound disorders. The main question it aims to answer is: * How does intensive and distributed treatment affect speech sound learning in residual speech sound disorder? Some participants will be treated with a traditional Distributed schedule of 2 sessions per weeks for 8 weeks (16 hours total), whereas others will be treated with an Intensive schedule and will complete 16 hours of treatment in 4 weeks.

Key Dates

Start date
Oct 26, 2023
Status verified
Jan 2026
Primary completion
Feb 29, 2028
Completion
Feb 29, 2028

Study Design

Enrollment
84 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT

Arms

  • Experimental: Intensive Treatment
    Speech Motor Chaining will be delivered in an intensive fashion. Week 1: 8 sessions (2 sessions per day on 4 different days) Week 2: 3 sessions (1 per day on 3 different days) Week 3: 3 sessions (1 per day on 3 different days) Week 4: 2 sessions (1 per day on 2 different days)
  • Experimental: Distributed Treatment
    Speech Motor Chaining will be delivered twice weekly for 8 weeks

Primary Outcome Measure

Change in percent correct for treated sound, rated by blinded listeners. [ Time Frame: Before the initiation of treatment and again 10 weeks later. ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Syracuse UniversitySyracuseNew York13244
Jonathan Preston, PhD
[email protected]
315-443-3143
Nicole Caballero, MS
[email protected]
315-443-1185

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